Pornography From A Different Angle

Christians, Pastors and Church Pornography Statistics

A 1996 Promise Keepers survey at one of their stadium events revealed that over 50% of the men in attendance were involved with pornography within one week of attending the event.

51% of pastors say cyber-porn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, 12/2001).

Over half of evangelical pastors admits viewing pornography last year.

Roger Charman of Focus on the Family's Pastoral Ministries reports that approximately 20 percent of the calls received on their Pastoral Care Line are for help with issues such as pornography and compulsive sexual behavior.

In a 2000 Christianity Today survey, 33% of clergy admitted to having visited a sexually explicit Web site. Of those who had visited a porn site, 53% had visited such sites “a few times” in the past year, and 18% visit sexually explicit sites between a couple of times a month and more than once a week.

29% of born again adults in the U.S. feel it is morally acceptable to view movies with explicit sexual behavior (The Barna Group).

57% of pastors say that addiction to pornography is the most sexually damaging issue to their congregation (Christians and Sex Leadership Journal Survey, March 2005).

Wow! I wonder if those stats would decline if they watched the following video. When you look at porn this is the kind of stuff you are supporting. I believe this is one of satan's most powerful, destructive, and addictive ministries.

(This video is not what I call graphic but I would call it very raw and disturbing. Consider that my disclaimer.)

Jesus Culture - Chris Quilala / Kim Walker

Just sharing some awesome worship that I can't stop listening to! Seriously, off the hook, off the chain worship right here.

Trusted Friends

Trusting someone does not mean that we have thoroughly tested that person out and proved that they are trustworthy. Our trust is not based on proof but on a sense, or a instinct, or maybe a feeling. Trust comes from some experience of the other person. Most often trust grows in a relationship of mutual love. One in which we have loved and been loved by the other.

In my efforts to overcome lifelong struggles of insecurity, loneliness, and deep emotional wounding, I have been aided immeasurably by trusted and trusting friends who, with no ulterior motive, see something in me I can't see in myself. They don't just tell me, they relate to me in a way which shows me that I do have value, I do have something to offer, and that I am lovable.

Honesty with others and with ourselves is seldom found in the world or even in the church. To disclose dark secrets to another is risky business. People often sense that if I bare my soul, I will be abandoned by my friends and ridiculed by my enemies. It takes trust and true friendship to confess who you really are and what you are truly feeling and thinking.

But what means the most to me is if a word of correction is needed and the friend offers it directly. ACCOUNTABILITY. I need it! Big time! I admire a friend who has the courage to tell me something unpleasant but necessary - you know, something that others should tell me but don't. (I believe they don't for fear that I won't like them or that I will be angry with them. However they are doing me a huge disservice because they are more concerned with keeping me happy, or not hurting my feelings, than growing me spiritually. ) Just as I need trusted friends to reveal the positive attributes in my life that I don't see, I need them even more to reveal the negative attributes I don't see. It stings at first but when it comes from a trusted friend I know it's because they want whats best for me.

Proverbs 27:6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

Just Rope, Throw, & Brand 'Em

I love old westerns. I grew up watching "Gunsmoke", "The Big Valley", "Bonanza", "The Rifleman" and "Wild Wild West". There was something about them that made me want to be a cowboy. No not like a Kid Rock cowboy but a cattle driving, gun slinging cowboy. I think the theme songs had as much to do with my desire as the actual show did. I knew them all and I sang them often. Something struck me today that made me start to sing them in my head, but I couldn't remember all the words. It started to drive me nuts so I went in search of the forgotten lyrics. As I listened to the theme song of the old western show "Rawhide", it struck something inside of me. It made me think of many a church in today's society.




Keep movin, movin, movin. Though they’re disapprovin keep them doggies movin Rawhide!
Don’t try to understand ‘em, just rope, throw, and brand ‘em. Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
My hearts calculatin. My true love will be waitin, Be waitin at the end of my ride.

Move ‘em on, head ‘em up. Head ‘em up, move ‘em on. Move ‘em on, head ‘em up Rawhide
Count ‘em out, ride ‘em in. Ride ‘em in, count ‘em out. Count ‘em out, ride ‘em in Rawhide!

The Good Stuff

I have been running and doing so much good "God stuff" that I haven't been giving God much of my "good stuff." This weekend he used several different people to get my attention. Here are five sentences that stuck with me and have changed my direction.


If you don't have your devotional life nailed down...Satan will eat your lunch.
They don't want what you think they need...they need you to be you.
If Jesus isn't the center of it... you're wasting your time.
Differences are blessings or opportunities to grow.
Mercy triumphs over judgement.


Lord help me to realize that only a few things are necessary in life. When you get right down to it there is really only one. To sit at your feet ...listening...looking into your eyes. What a privilege to sit at your nail scarred feet. Grant me the grace to not take that privilege casually or to neglect it like I so often do. May I come humbly and often because you are worthy to be worshiped and adored. I love you...may my actions line up with my words.